The Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, the last bastion of resistance to Russia, have become prisoners of war in Russian-controlled areas, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported, after registering hundreds of POWs.
Russia's war in Ukraine has taken the lives of more than 3,700 Ukrainians and turned more than six million others into refugees. There have been more than 2,000 people killed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions alone.
The cousin of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was deployed to Mariupol as a part of Russia’s push to end the months-long resistance holed up in the Azovstal steel plant, the U.K.’s defense ministry said Wednesday.
North Korea announced hundreds of thousands of new cases of fever on Wednesday. The country said that a million residents have already recovered from what outside experts believe are cases of COVID-19.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov admitted Tuesday that Russia is facing “difficulties” in its deadly campaign in Ukraine and claimed the war is actually a fight against NATO.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Sweden and Finland should not expect its support for NATO membership until European nations kowtow to its demands.
The surrendered Ukrainian fighters holed up in the Azovstal Steel Plant for weeks will have their “fate” decided by a Russian court, a Donetsk separatist leader said Wednesday.
The pivotal Nordic countries of Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Wednesday, amid Russia's continuing invasion of Ukraine.
A U.S. watchdog group said the surprisingly swift collapse of the Afghan military and their eventual surrender to Taliban forces was due to the withdrawal of America’s troops.
A new report says over 900 Ukrainian troops surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol following Ukraine’s surrender of the factory to Russia’s military.
Over 3,700 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s military invaded the country on Feb. 24, and another 4,000 civilians have been injured, according to the United Nations.
The State Department's new "Conflict Observatory" will use satellite imagery, social media, and other methods to document and disseminate alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.